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GEORGE EDWARD CURTIS. 
we have accomplished in our careers, Mr. Chapman was a 
successful man. But these are the product of honor and in¬ 
telligence, the embodiment of the Christian spirit, whatever 
may be our professed belief. Under the guardianship of an 
upright life, Mr. Chapman held the doctrines of pronounced 
spiritualism, and surely we can wish for him now no happier - 
fate than the realization of the belief of his manhood. 
Herbert G. Ogden. 
GEORGE EDWARD CURTIS. 
1861-1895. 
[Read before the Society, May 29, 1897.] 
George Edward Curtis was born July 8, 1861, at Derby, 
Connecticut, and died February 3,1895, at Washington, D. C. 
His father, George S. Curtis, and his mother, whose maiden 
name was Catherine Lewis Curtis, were descendants of the 
Curtises who settled at Stratford, Connecticut. 
He lost his father when but fifteen months old. An only 
child, he was much with his mother, and early developed a 
love for books and an ambition to get a college education. 
His youth was spent in his native town, where he attended 
the public schools and fitted for Yale College, entering that 
institution in 1878. 
His life was so regular and methodical that it contained 
few incidents of unusual importance. He was of small stature 
and always bore himself erect. His sense of justice and 
equity was acute, and he possessed a consideration for the 
feelings of others which brought him to their defense. The 
principal of a school Curtis once attended placed in the 
school a copy of Harper’s Weekly. At that time the paper 
was, to say the least, radically anti-Catholic. Young Curtis, 
desirous of defending such of his schoolmates as might take 
exception to the paper, wrote a very able criticism concerning 
the matter. Although only a schoolboy’s composition, in 
